These Bomb Pop Cupcakes recreate the flavor of an ice cream truck fave, the Bomb Pop! The lemon/lime cupcakes are infused with raspberry and topped with layers of blue raspberry, lime, and cherry butter cream!

**Hey friends! I’m re-sharing an old but most favorite recipe ever — Bomb Pop Cupcakes. They’re so fun and festive for the 4th — people go crazy for them! I hope that you love them as much as I do**

I’m sad to say that my son has never experienced the joy, sorrow, and anxiety that is the Ice Cream Truck.

Honestly, if a man pulled up in a white truck that played jack-in-the-box music and tried to sell him a popsicle, my child would probably run away screaming “stranger danger”.

When I was a kid, we lived for the ice cream truck. My friends and I would hang around outside all day on pins and needles, just hoping for the chance to pay way too much for a popsicle.

The worst was when someone would start the Ice Cream Truck Rumor. Some brat would get it going around that he heard or saw the truck a few blocks up, and we’d all run inside frantically begging for change. We’d then run back outside and wait…….and wait…….and wait.

And nothing.

Those Ice Cream Truck Liars probably grew up to be adults that act obnoxious on Facebook, posting passive aggressive statuses that make everyone paranoid.

Am I the only one who automatically thinks that they are talking about me? It can be a friend from high school that I haven’t talked to in 17 years, but all of a sudden I’m convinced that they are upset with me for being too-faced or standing them up for lunch or criticizing their children.

I’ve had to start unfriending people who do that. Anxious personalities like myself just aren’t cut out for the ambiguous, passive aggressive type. It’s a panic attack waiting to happen.

The days the ice cream truck really DID come though, were the best.

Especially if I had the money for an ice cream from the top row, which, due to the expensive nature of the treats, was a rare occasion.

The top row was reserved for things like Choco Tacos, Klondike Bars, Drumsticks, Mickey Mouse Ice Cream (on the stick, with the chocolate ears….so awesome), and occasionally a green ice cream Ninja Turtle or that pink foot with the gumball in the big toe.

Why a kid would find a frozen pink foot on a stick to be appealing is beyond me, but it happened. Who even had that idea? “Say Bob…you know what we should start producing in our popsicle factory? An ice cream that looks like a giant pink foot with a bubble gum toenail.”

Life is so weird, I mean for real.

The middle row was for the less expensive but still cool treats. The Rainbow Sno Cone, Flintstone Push Pops, Bomb Pops. You could buy something from the middle row and still look respectable.

The bottom row though…..the bottom row was the kiss of death. All the bottom row consisted of was Twin Popsicles and nickel Laffy Taffy’s.

And let me tell you, breaking one of those double popsicles neatly in half is a skill I have yet to master.

More often than not, my purchases were from the middle row. And I usually chose the Bomb Pop. It looked cool, plus it had three different flavors.

The white lime layer was my favorite.

So when I was trying to come up with a cupcake flavor that said Summer to me, I knew I had to go with my childhood favorite.

And guess what? I love it!

To create the flavor, I made lemon/lime cupcakes by modifying my favorite cake mix recipe.

The frosting is layers of blue raspberry, lime, and cherry butter cream.

Preheat oven to 350. Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners and set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, water, lime juice, vegetable oil, and eggs. Mix on low speed with an electric mixer for about 30 seconds or until well combined.

Scrape down the sides of the bowl and increase mixer speed to medium. Beat for 2 minutes.

Fill muffin cups 2/3 full with batter and bake for about 15 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched. Remove from oven and let cool completely on wire racks.

Frosting: In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the butter and heavy cream on low speed until barely combined. Increase to medium speed and mix until well blended. Add powdered sugar and beat on low speed until combined. Increase speed to medium and beat for about 2 minutes, until light and fluffy.

Remove 2/3 of the frosting from your mixer. Split the frosting that you removed in half and place in two bowls.

Add the cherry kool-aid and desired amount of red color to one of the small bowls. In the other small bowl, stir in the lime juice. In the large bowl of frosting, add the blue raspberry kool-aid powder and desired amount of blue color.

Pipe the blue raspberry frosting on the cupcakes, followed by the lime and cherry frosting. Insert a popsicle stick in the middle of the cupcakes and serve.

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I hope that these cupcakes bring you many happy Summer memories! Enjoy!

About Kristan

Hey cutie! Thanks for reading :) Let me introduce myself -- I'm Kristan (pronounced Kris-TANNE) a work-at-home mom living, baking, and online shopping in Fort Smith Arkansas. I have a 12 year-old son Jon David, a 4 year-old daughter Lucy, and a husband, Jess. I completely adore all of them 96% of the time (the rest of the time you can find me drinking my feelings with a box of Pinot). I hope you stay awhile -- I'd love to get to know you!

People always lie about the ice cream truck! In the summer I feel delusional thinking it is always around the corner. And yes, the ninja turtle one with the gum eyes is fantastic. Always was a fan of choco taco.

What a fantastic idea – your cupcakes are amazing! I always loved those Bomb Pops when I was growing up in Canada. Believe it or not, in England where I live now they are called "Rocket Lollies"! I think that sounds so much less exciting than Bomb Pops!!

We never had an ice cream truck but we had a tiny little store that sold all those amazing goodies out of a freezer box with a see-through top. You know the kind? My favorite was the Flinstone push-ups. No, wait. It was the strawberry shortcake popsicle. I could never choose!

What a brilliant, fun idea these cupcakes are! I love it and my kids would too. A great treat for the 4th too!

Instead of a truck we had a man who rode around on a bike with a freezer trunk on the front. We called it the Dickie Dee… I have no idea why. And everytime we heard the bells on the bike we'd drop everything and sprint from our houses, even if it meant chasing the thing down the street in bare feet. The best were when we'd be in the pool in our backyard and we'd hear chimes. We'd hop out of the pool and beg our parents for change. More often than not it was the neighbours wind chimes and we were left ice cream-less. Glad to know the ice cream plague touches everyone regardless of location :(

I always WANTED something from the ice cream truck, but never liked it much. Now if they would have served ACTUAL ice cream, that would have been a different story! Or these cupcakes….I would have been ALL OVER those!

Your story brought back so many memories for me. I always used to get my bare feet burnt by the cement in the road racing over to the truck. Strawberry shortcake bars were my favorite! Your cupcakes looks amazing!

Okay, I LOVED the big pink foot with the gumball!!! Two treats in one! Thanks for the memory!!! (Now I want one! lol) Remember the sno cone shaped one with the gumball in the bottom? I liked that too…I think they were fraternal twins lol

our ice cream truck is the same way! all the little kids in the neighborhood i live in seriously line up like 10-12 each time the ice cream man stops! maybe you should buy an ice cream truck, recreate all the cupcakes and then sell them on the truck!

The ice cream truck doesn't visit our neighborhood, so my daughter was one of the childen with out that experience until she went to high school. Each year during the marching band camp a generous family "contributes" the ice cream truck for the evening. Her life was complete! BTW, totally cool that the family is willing to pay for all the treats!

I LOVED those Mickey Mouse ice creams… I used to buy them at school because living in the middle on nowhere the only time we got to eat off the Ice Cream truck was when we were at my Grandma's in the city! (I so feel your sons pain! lol) I sill to this day love me some Bomb pops and I love that you can get them at the grocery store now… Crap… I was just there yesterday and now I have to go back and get ice cream! lol

Everything you said about the ice cream truck is SO TRUE. Chocolate tacos were the best, I still indulge in them when the opportunity presents itself :) The frosting on these looks bomb, and I love the idea of putting little popsicle sticks in the top.

Oh how I hate the freakin' ice cream truck, and wish I could live in a rural area so I could avoid that horrendous sound everyday. The truck comes around daily about 15 minutes before dinner. Every day the boy asks for ice cream, and every time he hears "no!". Your cupcakes are fabulous!! Your picture is amazing, and I love how you frosted these. Yum!!

Oh MY!!! These are fantastic!! And the story about the Ice Cream Truck man is cracking me up!!Thanks so much for joining Cupcake Tuesday and the Cupcake Challenge!The cupcakes are the BOMB! lol ;-)~Liz

I loved when the ice cream man would come around when I was a kid. My mom was the one out there with her wallet making sure everyone had enough to get something, or she'd offer up a nickel or so. {Showing my age a bit, I see you are of the Choco Taco generation and I only learned about them last year so seem to be WAY older!) I love when the ice cream man served soft serve ice cream-THOSE were the DAYS! (there I go again!)Now, where I live the ice cream man comes YEAR-ROUND, you heard me…no joke. ALL YEAR and at dinner time and there is more than one of them! It drives me nuts! So it's sad we've put a BAN in our house on the ice cream truck…we'd be broke…really! I take them to the store and get them whatever frozen treat they'd like and they love that they get a whole box and can have one a day for at least a week :) Love the bomb pop cupcake, love the colors! Such a fun idea :) Bomb pops always had that summer time appeal!

Stranger danger made me laugh out loud at my desk I was afraid snot my water was going to come out of my nose and give away that I was not really working! I loved the ice cream truck! This is a great post! Love it!

You have such a great blog!! I love it and cant wait to check back daily!! This recipe is such a great idea, who doesn't love bomb pops?!? I have a cupcake blog called "Stay Calm, Have a Cupcake" – feel free to stop by and check out some of the recipes.

funny icecream man story…a few months ago we got our girls their first ice cream from the ice cream man. A few days lafter he drove down our street again, my 4 year old threw the front door open and screamed "STOP" to him and threw her hand up to him to get him to stop and then asked my husband for some money for ice cream…how do you say no? we didn't it was to funny!

we do have an ice-cream man here, better known as "mr. ding-a-ling" – no we are not calling him a man name, that's what he goes by :-). my kids mr. ding-a-ling fanatics (we even know his schedule – monday, wednesday, friday, saturday, and sunday. he plays this "wonderful" music to the tune of "do your ears hang low" – we have been known to turn up the tv really loud so the kids don't hear him, since our rule is one mr. ding-a-ling treat a week. a couple of years ago, at dinner, my daughter informed me that she knew the ice-cream man's name. at that this point, the "safe side dvd" started playing in my head. i asked her how she knew his name and she said, "oh, hannah told me." well, that was a relief, but i started wondering what hannah was doing hanging around him. so, out of curiosity, i asked her what his name was (thinking dave, joe, mike, etc). with a straight face she answered "oh, it's mr. ding-a-ling." well, i couldn't stop laughing, and my poor daughter didn't understand.

ok, now the real reason i had to post was to tell you how much i LOVE these. if i didn't JUST come back from the grocery store (with groceries still on the counter) with a $230 food bill, i would be running back out to get everything i need for these to serve to our company this weekend. definitely another one of your recipes to save for my next dessert!

When I was a little girl the Ice cream man would walk down the street in front of my Granny's house. He pushed a cart and it had a string of bells across the top that jingled. We were tuned in to hear those bells 2 blocks away and could wake from a dead sleep when we heard them. Hmm must have been nap time when he came through because I remember doing that :/

Every time I hear bells, forget about angels getting wings, I think, ICE CREAM!!! Ok sometimes I may actually say it out loud. December is a torturous season for me ;-)

I have been waiting for weeks…I am so glad you're back to baking and writing!! I love it!! Bomb Pops and the ice Cream Man..at my house we had the ice cream man and the lemonade man. If we got lemonade during the day we couldnt get ice cream at night! My Mom would flip.."what da ya think I'm made a money???" So we had to choose!! Torture I tell ya torture! Thanks for the flashback it was awesome!

I love that not only do they have the look of a Bomb Pop, but the flavors as well. Our kids are missing out with no ice cream man to chase after like we did as kids.

I have the same question that a couple others have asked. Which tips did you use when decorating the cupcakes, especially the one used for the blue. Thanks for the info and for sharing all of your cool fun ideas!

I thought they were called Rocket Pops too, but it has been awhile since I have had one…I don’t think my kids ever have…hmmm…must go and get a box of them so my kiddos can experience them, since we too are in a rural area. We used to have Dickie-Dee bicycles too, at events on Parliament Hill and whatnot through out the summer (I am Canadian too)…my faves were always the ghost shaped ones that have gumball noses (I remember them tasting like the middle part of the rocket pops)…yum…must make these cupcakes :-D

Thanks for the great memories. When I was a kids we didn’t have an ice cream man, but in the neighborhood where we live now we do. And he comes year-round! Our neighborhood had a lot of kids (including my 3) and they used to run down to the corner when they heard his truck. A few of the kids were really little and so he used to come right into our cul-de-sac. The choco tacos were a big hit, but our favorite was the strawberry shortcake ice creams and the carmel drumsticks.
Really good memories!

These are fantastic!!!! These bring back such great and fond memories. We were on a first name basis with our Good Humor Truck Ice cream man. He was an older gentleman, probably retired from a previous job, and found such joy in seeing us everyday, I mean everyday!!!! Thanks for such a great recipe. I may need to run to the supermarket nice and early tomorrow and get to making these….

Came across your site through Pinterest! I JUST made these cupcakes for my daughter’s birthday party tomorrow. LOVE THEM! I, too, was wondering what tip you used?? I used one similar I think but not the same. I couldn’t get my piping to look the same. Will you share?? ;)

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I have many fond memeories of the ice cream truck. There were six of us kids in the family and it wasn’t often when we were allowed to have it. In fact, my brothers would yell “stop” and then we’d all run and hide on most days.
The bomb pop was my favorite and I cannot wait to make your recipe. You’re a genius!

I had an ice cream truck when I was very little as we lived in a bigger city, then we moved to a smaller city outside city limits which meant no ice cream trucks and a lot of stray dogs. I blame the stupid people dropping off their unwanted dogs in our neighbour for only accepting dogs and not being mushy over them like others.

As for my short lived experience with ice cream trucks … My favourite were the ice cream in plastic cones with the gum ball at the bottom.

My sister to this day still loves a Bomb Pop might have to make these for her!!

These are GORGEOUS!! I seriously just Laughed out loud when you said “Those Ice Cream Truck Liars probably grew up to be adults that act obnoxious on Facebook, posting passive aggressive statuses that make everyone paranoid” LMAO HAHAHAHA

People always lie about the ice cream truck! In the summer I feel delusional thinking it is always around the corner. And yes, the ninja turtle one with the gum eyes is fantastic. Always was a fan of choco taco.

Aren’t this amazing! I got a total flashback of my childhood when I saw these amazing cupcakes! The colors look stunning and the flavor combination are great. I couldn’t ask anything better than blue raspberry, white lemon, and cherry flavors in one cupcake! It’s really amazing!

Aren’t this amazing! I got a total flashback of my childhood when I saw these amazing cupcakes! The colors look stunning and the flavor combination are great. I couldn’t ask anything better than blue raspberry, white lemon, and cherry flavors in one cupcake! It’s really amazing!

If you remove 2/3 of the icing, then divide 1/2 of what you removed…aren’t you really dividing the icing into thirds? Or am I reading this wrong? I’m making these cupcakes later today for my cheerleading squad and was just reading through the recipe to get ready and it seems like I will need less red than the other colors.

I got a total flashback of my childhood when I saw these amazing cupcakes! The colors look stunning and the flavor combination are great. I couldn’t ask anything better than blue raspberry, white lemon, and cherry flavors in one cupcake! It’s really amazing!